Prafulla Chandra Roy
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Prafulla Chandra Ray was a Indian
Bengali people
The Bengali people are an ethnic community native to the historic region of Bengal in South Asia. They speak Bengali , which is an Indo-Aryan language of the eastern Indian subcontinent, evolved from the Magadhi Prakrit and Sanskrit languages. In their native language, they are referred to as বাঙালী...

 academician
Academician
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, a chemist
Chemist
A chemist is a scientist trained in the study of chemistry. Chemists study the composition of matter and its properties such as density and acidity. Chemists carefully describe the properties they study in terms of quantities, with detail on the level of molecules and their component atoms...

 and entrepreneur. He was the founder of Bengal Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals
Bengal Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals
Bengal Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals Limited , established in 1901, is a Public Sector Undertaking of the Government of India and is India's first pharmaceutical company. The company was started by Prafulla Chandra Roy in Kolkata and has since manufactured such household Indian products as...

, India's first pharmaceutical company. He is the author of A History of Hindu Chemistry from the Earliest Times to the Middle of Sixteenth Century (1902).
Ray was born in the village Raruli-Katpara in His father Harish Chandra Ray was a land proprietor. Up to age of nine, Prafulla Chandra studied in a school in his village.
 
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